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AROUND THE QUADSCampus NewsSCIENCE TOWER: The University has confirmed plans to build a new science building on the corner of Broadway and 120th Street above Dodge Gymnasium. Rafael Moneo, an internationally prominent architect based in Madrid whose projects include an extension to the Prado Museum, has been chosen as the science tower’s architect. President Lee C. Bollinger described Moneo as “one of the great architects of our time. His projects show an extreme sensitivity to context, [and he is] very creative about practical problems. It is a major issue to build a significant new building above the gymnasium on this corner of campus.” Mark Wigley, dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, said Moneo was noted for his resourcefulness in difficult projects. “He’s very, very thoughtful, so it makes perfect sense for him to do a project for a university, for in a way he’s one of us — he thinks like a university person,” Wigley said. The science tower figures to be the last major structure to be built based on McKim, Mead & White’s original plan for the Morningside Heights campus. “This is the only major gap in the original scheme,” Wigley said. “It’s respecting the traditional University while creating a space for its most experimental research.” WE’RE NO. 9, AGAIN: Columbia was tied with Dartmouth for ninth in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of the best national universities, released in August. It’s the second consecutive year and third time in the last five that Columbia has been ranked ninth. Harvard and Princeton were tied atop the list, with Yale third, Penn fourth, Duke and Stanford tied for fifth and Cal Tech and MIT tied for seventh. Ratings are based on an assortment of factors, including peer assessment, graduation and retention rates, class sizes, faculty resources, selectivity, rankings of incoming students and alumni giving. MATTHEWS: The Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum at Columbia University opened on September 30 in the Kempner Gallery of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, featuring items collected by the nation’s first drama professor, James Brander Matthews. Matthews began collecting his memorabilia in 1911 with hopes of preserving items from the past to better educate drama students of the present. Among the items on display are a 5-foot tall marionette of Don Quixote designed by Remo Bufano in 1924, set and costume designs by Joseph Urban and Leslie Powell, a set of French Punch and Judy puppets purchased in Paris in 1925, a manuscript of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s School for Scandal and costume sketches by Caspar Neher for a production of Macbeth in the early 1950s. Running concurrently in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s West Gallery is Tennessee Williams: Portraits, Plays and Fragments of a Life, an exhibit on all facets of Williams’s writing career that includes letters, plays and set designs by Boris Aronson and Jo Mielziner. The exhibits will be open to the public on the sixth floor of Butler Library through January 27, 2006. Visit the library’s Web site for hours.
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